Pierre LaRoche

Pierre LaRoche (1917-) was a French Resistance leader during World War II.

Biography
Pierre LaRoche was born in Marseille, France in 1917, and he was known to support the ideas of justice and discipline. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance, playing an active role in the armed struggle against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany in the country. On 22 July 1944, he linked up with SAS Major Gerald Ingram's squad near Toucy in Burgundy, and they took out German Flak 88 positions and a manor house used as a German barracks. They later participated in a raid on the German fuel depot at Autun and rescued Resistance hostages held by the Germans in the countryside around Les Ormes; their raid on the fuel depot cut the German supply lines and helped the advance of the Polish 1st Armored Division, and their rescue of the hostages freed Ingram from German captivity, while Isabelle DuFontaine sacrificed herself during that raid.